I just couldn't ignore this review by 'Katy Lake' she has done a little homework and her results confirms my worst suspicions. I will post a copy of her review towards the end of this post - but before that I would also like to draw attention to the 2 'spotlight' reviews currently on Amazon for this book - both are 1 star reviews and the first one claims that "4765 of 4907 people found the following review helpful" whilst the second one has "2411 of 2685 people found the following review helpful". Now that is a LOT of interest for book that supposedly 'most people' don't like!!!!!!!!!
Now for the Katy Lake review that I mentioned:
Things that are pathetic..., January 17, 2006
Reviewer: Katy Lake (The People's Republic of New Jersey) - See all my reviews
A few hundred unemployed leftwing kooks, doing the leftie lemming dance, and all posting about a book they've never seen, much less never read.
To alleviate the conspiracy theory freaks, no, I didn't get an email about this assault on O'Beirne's book. I read a review on the book in a magazine, and looked it up on Amazon, and lo and behold: hundreds of incomprehensible, badly-written, one- and two-liner posts that clearly show the writers were still in the Crayola stages. And many posted on the same DAY.
Uh, right. I was absolutely positive this was a complete coincidence, but just to make sure, I did a little 'net search. I bet you're shocked to discover that various leftie nutjob sites put the aforementioned unemployed leftie dolts up to trashing the book.
Here is one dolt, crowing about doing his bit for the First Amendment: "As of today, Kate's book is sinking like a stone. Yesterday it was #51. Today it is #78, solely because people from this site, from Crooks & Liars, from Kos (thanks Rena) and Jesus' General acted in concert for political action."
Wow. Imagine being proud of a mass trashing of a book you never read and have no intention of reading, just because you don't like the author's politics. O'Beirne is an excellent writer, mostly for National Review for whom I believe she still works. It's obvious the book must be very good, indeed, to necessitate so many lefties waking up before noon to post illiterate hate blurbs.
How typical of the free speech-hating left. And how sad, in a country with a 5 percent unemployment rate, none of these dopes could even qualify for hamburger flipping job.
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